The American Heart Association has announced the publication of the inaugural issue of Circulation: Heart Failure. The title is the second of a planned extension of the association's weekly journal, Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Under the extension plan, six new journals dedicated to presenting the most important papers in key subspecialty areas of cardiology will be released.
Findings about how the day of admission influences the length of a patient's hospitalisation for heart failure, and questions about the effectiveness of two drugs to treat heart failure patients are featured in the inaugural issue. Scientific articles charting advances and challenges in diagnosing and treating heart failure - a growing disease problem that afflicts 5.3 million Americans - are also featured.
An ongoing series planned in the new journal will include 'Development of Therapeutics in Heart Failure,' 'Advances in Heart Failure,' 'Controversies in Heart Failure,' and 'Challenges to the Basis of Practice.' Another series, 'Cases and Images in Heart Failure' will highlight real-life scenarios that call for clinical thinking beyond guidelines, and is intended to be highly interactive with readers working alongside experts to propose solutions to complex issues.
Each bimonthly issue of Circulation: Heart Failure and the other new journals will be available in both print and online formats. The journal website, http://circheartfailure.ahajournals.org, will also present "Publish Ahead of Print" articles and other online features. The journal Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology debuted in April and four other publications will be launched later this year. Full issues of the specialty journals will be published every other month, and papers from each issue will be published online -ahead of print - as they become available.
